Color

#ab8d59

#ab8d59
hex#ab8d59
rgbrgb(171, 141, 89)
hslhsl(38, 33%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.659 0.078 80.5)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2843

Colors that go with #ab8d59

Cadet Blue, Cornflower Blue and Burlywood lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #ab8d59

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5977ab

#ab6459 · #a0ab59

#59ab8d · #8d59ab

Split-complementary

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#59a0ab · #6459ab

#59ab64 · #5977ab · #ab59a0

Contrast

#ab8d59 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.14:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8b7246 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #695635 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.69:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #af9260 as the text (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab8d59 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ab8d59 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab8d59
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #ab8d59 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab8d59-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md